The Holocaust and the Australian Aboriginal response

Biographer Barbara Miller has published a handbook online focusing on Australia’s response to the events leading up to and during the Holocaust. Read more

Celebrating Israel’s 75th at UIA QLD Campaign opening event

UIA QLD is counting down until its 2023 Campaign Opening Event with guest speaker Ayelet Shaked – Israel’s Former Minister of Justice and Interior – on Sunday, 26 March, in Brisbane. Read more

Three charged for displaying nazi symbols

Last October, the Australia Cup final between Sydney United and McArthur FC became a showgound for nazi saluting fans. Read more

Israel stands by to assist New Zealand

As New Zealand starts to recover from the deadly flooding experienced recently following Cyclone Gabrielle, Israel’s ambassador has offered the country whatever assistance Israel can provide. Read more

Vale Senator Jim Molan

Fellowships to honour the memory of Aiia

The memory of Aiia Maasarwe, a young Palestinian Israeli woman tragically murdered in Melbourne in January 2019, will be honoured with the awarding of two fellowships for Palestinian physicians to train in Israeli hospitals. Read more

1982 bomb attacks on consulate and Hakoah “an act of international terrorism”

The NSW State Coroner has found that both explosions in the Hakoah Club in 1982 were an act of international terrorism perpetrated by the ‘May 15’ terrorist organisation with the assistance of one or more local supporters. Read more

Mark Coure sends a Chanukah message

From the NSW Minister for Multiculturalism Mark Coure: Read more

Point of return

Celebrating Israel 2022 marks the 75th Anniversary of the historic vote by the UN GeneralAssembly on 29 November 1947 on resolution 181,  The Partition Plan” for the establishment of a Jewish State, paving the way for the establishment of the State of Israel in its historical land. Read more

JCCV shows its support

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria has extended its support to former students of Brighton Secondary College as their legal case alleging incidents of antisemitism returns to court. Read more

Israeli election: first votes cast

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Operation Jacob: 100th yahrzeit for heroic medical serviceman and an overdue consecration

On 26 October 1922, while riding bareback to render first aid, the 31-year-old Captain Norman Packer was thrown from the horse and died of a fractured skull, and was buried in a cemetery near Cologne. Read more

A 25-years old tradition

Two Australian financial legends have carried out the tradition of opening the ark at Neilah, the closing service for Yom Kippur at Sydney’s Central Synagogue, for around 25 years. Read more

A Yom Kippur message from Australia’s prime minister

G’mar chatima tova—I send warm greetings to all who celebrated Yom Kippur. Read more

B’nai B’rith and JBOD raise funds for flood victims

B’nai B’rith Australia and the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies banded together to establish an appeal to raise much-needed flood relief funds for communities and individuals affected by February’sdevastinh floods in northern NSW and southern Queensland. Read more

Southwick pledges help for the disabled

David Southwick and the Liberals will invest $150,000 to purchase, fit and launch a food truck with All Things Equal if he is elected at the upcoming election. Read more

ECAJ’s Alex Ryvchin visits Brisbane

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-Chief Executive Alex Ryvchin travelled to Brisbane this week to meet with state and federal politicians in partnership with the Queensland Jewish Board of Deputies. Read more

Maccabiah: Australia’s flagbearers announced

Sydney’s Johnny Pillemar and Lauren Ehrlich have named as Australia’s flag bearers when the team marches into Jerusalem’s Teddy stadium on Thursday for the opening ceremony. Read more

Inquisition documentation discovered, digitalized

Nearly 500 years after the Portuguese Inquisition began, rare documentation of its proceedings and victims has been discovered in the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People at Jerusalem’s National Library of Israel and digitized for the first time. Read more

Men at work vests on the Hakoah site at last

The Sydney White City Project Director Robert Woolf has handed over the key to the site to Parkview Constructions, who will build the new Hakoah. Read more

Forgive us – omitted on the Queen’s Birthday awards list

As expected, we have missed a couple of recipients of the Queen’s birthday awards list. Sorry to Graham and Deborah Read more

Strategic analyst warns of Israel’s increasingly acute security challenges

Brigadier General (Res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, Senior Project Manager at the Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs and former Director-General of Israel’s Ministry of International Affairs and Strategy, addressed a recent Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) webinar. Read more

Not the end of Kosher butchery in Sydney

Kosher consumers are by now fully aware of the closure of Kosherworld, comprising both Hadassa Butchery and Katzy’s. Read more

Ehud Olmert to visit digitally

New Israel Fund Australia will host a streaming event with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert next week. Read more

Antisemitism peaked globally in 2021

On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Centre for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Humanities has published its 28th Annual Report on Antisemitism Worldwide. Read more

ACMA dismisses complaints against ABC’s Q&A Israel/Hamas program

On May 21 last year, the believed disparity of the panel on a Q&A debating the Hamas/Israel conflict resulted in Jewish leadership registering complaints to the ABC but the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has eventually dismissed them. Read more

A 70-kilometre walk to save orphans in Ukraine

Gary Meyers set himself the challenge to complete a 70-kilometre walk from Macquarie Lighthouse in Watsons Bay to Sea Cliff Bridge in Stanwell Park to raise funds for orphans in Ukraine. Read more

Iran, Russia and a potentially disastrous new US-brokered nuclear deal

Dr Jonathan Schanzer, the Senior Vice President for Research at the Foundation for the Defence of Democracies, and a former terrorism finance analyst at the US Department of the Treasury, addressed the latest Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) webinar, where his topic was, “Iran, Russia and a Potentially Disastrous New US Brokered Nuclear Deal”. Read more

Hadassah at the Polish border

Reporting from the Polish border with Ukraine this week, Hadassah’s Dr Shaul Beyth, one of Israel’s most experienced orthopaedic surgeons, observed the Ukrainian refugees fleeing the conflict. Read more

NZJC calls for help for Ukraine’s Jews

The New Zealand Jewish Council has launched a funds drive to finance help for Ukraine’s Jewish community. Read more

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